Finding the time to get away isn’t easy. It’s even harder trying to organise a trip with a partner, where you both need to find time off work,study and save up enough money, and it’s almost impossible as part of a group when you all keep pushing the travel date further and further back until…
TV, Venue
Westworld – The Next Game of Thrones?
HBO seems to have worked its magic again with new show Westworld, or has it? This new science-fiction and western mashup is based on the 1973 film written by Michael Crichton. It depicts a futuristic theme park where rich people can spend time in a Western town populated by nearly perfect androids- but where the…
Travel
“My gap yah”: Why you should spend a year teaching in Chile
Saying you’ve done a ‘gap year’ can tend to have a certain stigma behind it in the UK. Although a German friend with whom I’d travelled told me that upon telling employers that he’d done a gap year overseas found himself being immediately hired, I have often found the opposite reaction. When you tell most…
Global
We need to talk about Yemen
A 72-hour ceasefire began in Yemen on the 19th October. This was an attempt to halt the hostilities between the Houthi rebels, a Shia military group supported by Iran that captured the capital Sanaa in 2014, and a coalition of nine Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, with intelligence and weapons provided by the United…
Featured Posts, Global
Brexit: A view from down under
Australia is a country with close political and cultural ties to the UK, and so its people are naturally keeping a close eye on the unfolding political break of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Most news coverage in Australia seems to communicate one main emotion shared amongst the Australian population: confusion. This event…